Ama, literally means ‘woman of the sea’ and is recorded as early as 750 in the oldest Japanese anthology of poetry. These women specialised in free-diving some 30 feet down into cold water wearing nothing more than a loincloth. Since the Meiji era, divers wore goggles for clarity and from 1964, rubbery, black wetsuits.
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For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and if you've dipped into Messy Nessy's archives, you will have already met the few ladies
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For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and if you've dipped into Messy Nessy's archives, you will have already met the few ladies
You all — especially our Patreon supporters, whose requests we take very seriously! — have been asking for an in-depth review of The Duchess (2008) for a while now, but I’ll admit…
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It's tough doing justice to a legend.
Anders Petersen was eighteen when he traveled from his home in Sweden to Hamburg’s red light district the Reeperbahn. He wanted to escape his upbringing, shed his comfortable bourgeois skin and try on another to see how it felt. His parents had separated when he was young and he had been brought up by his grandmother in the quiet of the countryside amid fields and cherry trees and a darkening border of a forest. It was an idyllic fairytale world, but boring. The Reeperbahn was a chaotic world of excitement, and pleasure, and excess, and danger. He met a green-eyed Finnish woman who worked the main drag. They became lovers and Petersen was introduced to the world of prostitutes, drag queens, drug addicts, drunks, pimps, and thieves. He took courage from his lover, from beer and from amphetamines (Preludin) to finally break free of the rules and manners, the lies and constraints of his bourgeois childhood. He had found himself another family who lived their lives without care, without shame, without judgment or censure. Petersen made friends with these characters who shambled joyously through the night at the local bar like the Café Lehmitz. All too soon it...
Ann Bonfoey Taylor was as impressive a couture collector as she was an athlete. How then have so few people—even in the fashion world—heard of her? Charlotte Moss discovers the life and times of a glamorous maverick
Christina Broom was forty years old when she taught herself how to use a camera. Not an everyday occurrence in 1903. She got help from her teenage daughter Winifred to help in the darkroom based in the coal cellar in their Fulham home and she started making postcards – a growing industry at the time. … Continue reading "The Suffragette Photographs of Christina Broom"
Gather round for some stories of excellent women from recent and ancient history who lived all over the world.
While the seventies tend to get a bad rap when it comes to fashion, these pages demonstrate that women's styles could actually be quite attractive and brilliantly creative.
These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air and dive for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. They are known as Ama and make a living hunting for abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls.…
“Going Out” art by Coby Whitmore
Do you want to read scuba diving blogs written from a woman's point of view? Here are the best blogs by female scuba divers.
Girls that Scuba attempt a world record in Gili T in Indonesia. We reveal everything that went on behind the scenes
I thought this one was fun but not all that interesting photographically, until I noticed the group on the bleachers in the back, watching the diver so intently. Sort of a story within a story. Taken at National Diving Championships, Pasadena, CA, July 25 2008. These were the trials for the US Olympic team to go to Beijing. I unfortunately didn't get the name of the diver, but she was superb. I love that you can see something of her arm and torso under the surface of the water.
Girls that Scuba attempt a world record in Gili T in Indonesia. We reveal everything that went on behind the scenes
"Don't date a girl who dives" is inspired by the many remarkable women scuba divers I've met along the way. This is my story as well as theirs.
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